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  • Fucking hell I hate to even say this, but this might be the first thing he has ever done that I might agree with. But hear me out before you crucify me.

    There isn't rampant voter fraud near to the level MAGA claims. They imply it's 50% fraudulent. It's really like 1% or less, and most of that gets caught anyway already.

    I do think it is important to validate that the person casting the vote is registered and is the correct person casting the vote. But I would balance that requirement with common sense and I'd make getting any/all valid IDs easy and free (fully tax funded). From DL to Real ID to Military or whatever else. All free. All simple to get. All accessible to do. And I'd also make all elections a national holiday and expand mail in and online voting and early voting. Give people as much margin to get their vote in as possible.

    Elections do need security, hell, I'm still not entirely convinced that Elon didn't do SOMETHING nefarious in this last one. He at very least was paying people which is illegal. But we need better encryptions and processes and forms of certifying that the ballots cast were indeed the correct intended vote and ways to go back and validate your own vote in a secure way. Make a portal where you can log in like your bank and see your vote history or something.

    While we're at it. Abolish the damn college. Just make it all RCV and be done with all this shit with gerrymandering and arguing over the "least worst' candidate every cycle.

  • I couldn't tell from the article, but does this impact ALL apps that do NOT go through the Google Play Store?

    What about 3rd party App Stores? Amazon has one, there is also the FOSS app stores like F-Droid. Are those in or out?

  • If we want to end the crime wave in DC all we have to do is arrest the grifter in the White House.

  • TIL AOL Dial up is still a thing.

  • Some people read magazines or scroll social media while they shit, but THIS GUY reads classified national secrets.

    What's funny is he is simultaneously too dumb to be reading that sort of thing and too dumb to not understand how national security works.

  • I was making the point that people are just now finally realizing that Zionism, similar to Christian Nationalism in the US, have been the issue all along. It's been 80 years and here they are each repeating all the same atrocities all over again.

    Tribalism and fear and hate is causing so much destruction and death and suffering.

  • Whoa whoa whoa! You forgot grifter, conman, asshole, buffoon, ancient, out of touch, spoiled, narcissistic, evil, bully, dumb little bitch.

  • Math checks out.

  • The Gaza shore is lovely this time of year, would be nice to visit if not for ALL THE GENOCIDE!!!

  • Listen, ketamine billionaires goin around distributing presidency is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical ignorant ceremony.

  • Ketamine, Kamps and Krash

  • Ew gross, you are going to the US, on purpose!? 🤣

  • All these things haven't suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.

  • You know, I'm starting to wonder if Hitler and the Holocaust are not good things and maybe we should stop him.

  • Yeah, fair. But also, you can't convince me that every single MAGA just don't know what's going on. We are all telling them, showing them, showing up with receipts and history books, proving their premises wrong at every turn, proving Trump a liar at every turn, proving all the horrible things true at every turn. And they always just go "whatever, I voted for this!"

    At some point it isn't just propaganda and ignorance, but willfully and knowingly.

    They have permission to be racist, hateful, assholes and bullies and abusers and they love it. And they love that he is doing it all for them and they can just sit back and watch.

  • At this point the 37% he has reflects less on his incompetence and idiocy and more on their intelligence and racism.

    But yeah, that's insanely high for how bad and racist he is.

    Wonder what Hitler or Stalin polled at during different points.

  • This also isn't some new thing, there are a lot of subtle and not so subtle things like this all the time with religion. Always have, always will. It's just a tool for control and agendas.

  • Exactly. Everyone likes to blame AI right now, but the actual reality is that everything has been getting more automated, centralized, efficient, etc. What used to be an entire office of people using typewriters and paper and pens and file cabinets is now a single SQL database with some code doing analysis and reports. What used to be an entire team of programmers and analysts can now be a handful of people using AI and pre built templates or software. AI is just the next evolution of an already existing story of evolving industries. Similarly 1 farmer in an ACed tractor can now sow and reap entire fields of food that used to be hundreds of people for days in the hot sun.

    We don't need to be afraid of the technology, but we also don't want to move so fast that we lay off thousands of people all at once and they have no other job to go to.

    We COULD, in theory demand that every worker that gets replaced by AI and laid off or fired in any way gets a retirement or UBI or something. Some small cut of their former paycheck, but we all know what is about to happen, the few executives at the top are going to fire more and more people and automate more and more things and collect all of the profits and wealth for themselves and leave the rest of us to starve. But that's what the Republicans want, it's the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" party, which in practice just means screw you, I got lucky and got mine.

    The only good thing about AI is that, in theory, anyone could train up their own ML system and profit off what it does. That does give the command person the potential to enter industries they didn't before. Similar to the movable type printing press suddenly opening the way for more people to publish a book. Or the Internet opening the way for me to talk to you where we couldn't have like this 40 years ago.

    All of that to say, in a long way, we create more and better technology and tools as a species, it's what we do. We need to embrace that, but also be mindful of what we are creating and for what purposes. Splitting the atom can provide power to entire cities or destroy them. So too could AI provide something good for mankind, but could also destroy.

  • But we can't afford to feed kids or have medical care or research for cancers and diseases or build housing for everyone.

    But we can buy expensive bombs galore to drop on families and build concentration camps.

    Neat.

    So, when do we all stop paying taxes and stop going to work and bring the whole system crashing down to stop this madness?